Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Thank you. Commissioner Wilder, sir, will you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Thank you. We'll go ahead and open up for public comments.

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Thank you. Seeing no public comments, anybody online? All right. We'll go ahead and close public comment and move forward to our public hearing. At this time, Planning Commission will open the public hearing to receive public input regarding Planning Case PR-twenty 20666. Good morning.

Good morning. Thank you, honorable chairwoman, members of commission. Candace Lasatze, Senior Planner. The case before you this morning is a zoning code map and text amendment, tentative parcel map, design review, development agreement, and an environmental impact report to facilitate the development of two warehouse buildings. The project site consists of three contiguous parcels consisting of approximately 14.42 acres and is partially developed with two industrial buildings, accessory buildings, as well as bus parking and storage.

Development in the surrounding area consists of industrial uses to the North across Roberta Street, industrial uses to the South across Massachusetts Avenue, a homeless shelter and services building and industrial uses to the East, and a recycling center to the West across Kansas Avenue. These photos are of the project site. Photos one and two are from Massachusetts Avenue looking north. Photos two and four are from Roberta Street looking south. Photos five and six are from Kansas Avenue looking east.

The site is currently zoned general industrial and within the employment emphasis and housing emphasis subdistricts of the Innovation District Overlay Zone. This map shows the Innovation District Overlay Zone with the project site highlighted in yellow. The project proposes to change the Innovation District Overlay Zone Subdistrict from the employment emphasis shown in red and housing emphasis shown in orange to the industrial Emphasis Subdistrict shown in purple. The project proposes a tentative parcel map for a two lot subdivision for condominium purposes. As proposed, the parcel meet meets parcel map meets the minimum standards of the subdivision code and lot standards of the general Industrial And Innovation District Overlay Zone.

The project proposes to demolish the existing industrial buildings and construct two new industrial buildings on a 10.21 acre portion of the site. No development is proposed on the easternmost parcel currently developed with bus parking and storage. Building 1 is proposed to consist of 99,900 square feet and include 93,900 square feet of warehouse area and 6,000 square feet of Ground Floor office space. Building 1 will include 17 dock doors located along the southern side of the building. The truck dock doors are interior to the site and not visible from the right of way.

The areas highlighted in green are open space areas for the use of employees. Building 1 will take access from Kansas Avenue and Roberta Street. As mentioned, Building 1 will have three open space areas. The areas are planned to incorporate landscaping, decorative paving, shade structures, seating areas, and recreational games. Building 1 proposes a six foot high perimeter fence as shown in red consisting of a four foot high block wall with a two foot two feet of tubular steel on top installed along Roberta Street and a portion of Kansas Avenue to to screen the parking.

The remainder of the site will be secured using a combination of a six foot high high tubular steel fence as shown in blue and a six foot high CMU block wall as shown in purple. The proposed project has been designed to incorporate an earth tone color scheme with decorative accents including brick facades along the right of way as well as metal canopies. Building 2 is proposed to consist of 99,950 square feet and will include 91,700 square feet of warehouse area, 6,000 square feet of Ground Floor office space, and 2,250 square feet of mezzanine office space. Building 2 will include 22 dock doors located along the northern side of the building. The truck dock doors are interior to the site and not visible from the right of way.

The areas highlighted in green are common open space areas for the use by employees. Building 2 will take access from Kansas And Massachusetts Avenues. Mentioned, Building 2 will have three open space areas. These areas also will incorporate landscaping, decorative paving, shade structures, seating areas, and recreational games. Building 2 proposes a six foot high perimeter fence as shown in red consisting of a four foot high block wall with two feet of tubular steel on top installed along Kansas Avenue and a portion of Massachusetts Avenue to screen the parking.

The remainder of the site will be screened using a six foot high tubular steel fence as shown in blue. Building 2 is designed to be consistent with the architecture and materials used for Building 1. The project's conceptual landscape plan includes up to nine species of shade and accent trees across the project site as well as up to 22 water efficient species of shrubs, accent plants, and ground covers. Trees and shrubs have been placed at strategic locations to provide shade and screening of parking spaces from adjacent properties and the public right of way. In terms of the CCAR process, we have completed the final EIR and are in the public hearing phase which is identified by the red star.

A thirty day public review period for the notice of preparation for the environmental impact report was published and a draft EIR was prepared and published for a forty five day public review period. During the forty five days, staff received three comments, letters regarding air quality, environmental justice analysis, warehouse best practices, Live Impacts project list, and the city's Good Neighbor Policy. Clarification on concerns expressed in the letters are addressed in the final EIR which was included as Exhibit 14 to the staff report. The slide identifies the issues that are discussed in the draft EIR. An initial study was not prepared, therefore all CEQA topics were analyzed in the draft EIR.

The proposed project is consistent and compatible with the surrounding development and meets the purpose of the Innovation District overlay zone as applicable. With that, staff recommends that the Planning Commission recommend that the City Council find that the draft EIR has been completed in compliance with CEQA, that the project will not have a significant effect on the environment, and recommend approval of the project based on the findings outlined in the staff report and subject to the recommended conditions and mitigation measures. This concludes staff presentation. The applicant is available to answer any questions and they also have a presentation.

Thank you for your presentation. Would the applicant please come forward and state your name? Good morning.

Good morning. Honorable commissioners, thank you. My name is Kevin Staley. And I'm with Staley Point Capital. And that's the applicant today. If I might, I'd like to start by thanking you, all of you, for your service, for what you do for the community, and also for reviewing this project. So I appreciate that very much.

Thank you so much, sir. Do you agree with staff's conditions and recommendations?

Yes, we do.

Thank you very much. And I see you have a presentation. Are you going to be presenting to us?

Yes, we will. And I'd like to also thank Candace for an extraordinary job she did in supporting this project. Really was. A real tribute to your community. And if I might also just take a short moment on a personal level. The city of Riverside is a wonderful place. I got acquainted with it from my wife who went to the Mission Inn. This is back in the 1980s. And it's wonderful community. I was there in December and asked the gentleman putting up the lights if they had reached a million yet.

And he was very proud to say yes. It exceeded it. And then I had the good fortune of building a couple of buildings over on Iowa back in the 80s. And then about ten years ago, had the chance to acquire the biggest cup in the world. You may recall the sweetheart. So I was the proud owner of that for a few years. Happy to have got a sheen to it again. And so anyway I've got a little history. We bought this site about ten years ago and have been nurturing it along and are thrilled to have the chance to present it to you today. And some of the details will be presented by my colleague, Stephen and Christy.

He'll come up right now. But thank you again for your consideration.

Thank you so much, sir.

Good morning, honorable members of the planning Again, I want to reiterate our thanks to planning staff who has done a wonderful job of putting together this environmental impact report analysis. This is the full blown analysis. No corners were cut here. So went through a very rigorous analysis. So, again, thank you commission and much thanks to planning staff as well.

I think I pressed this button here. A little bit about Staley Point, which my colleague Kevin mentioned earlier, we're a Southern California based real estate investment development firm with a long track record of high quality redevelopments. In addition to the projects mentioned in the city of Riverside, we've recently completed projects in Corona, Cerritos, City Of Industry, and we have an award winning project for development and construction in the city of Los Angeles. The project objectives for this project are to provide real solutions that benefit all stakeholders in the development of high quality, viable and sustainable buildings. We have four laid out objectives there.

The first is to help support the city's near and long term objectives, promote innovative and excellent design, build economically viable and sustainable projects, and support the community by attracting high quality companies and jobs. Currently, site consists of 103,000 square feet of what we would consider outdated Class D industrial buildings. We view this as an opportunity to redevelop the site with new state of the art buildings. This is a view from Massachusetts Avenue of the rendering on the elevations there that were previously shown. It has attractive design features to include decorative exterior enhancements, art features, amenity spaces, walkways, enhanced landscaping and architectural lighting.

This is a rendering of the view from Roberta Street. And again, we're trying to bring this from a class d to a class a building project to attract Class A tenants. Building specifications has previously been reviewed approximately 200,000 square foot buildings on 10.21 acres with a 4.2 acre adjacent lot. Each building will have 6,000 square feet with Building 2 having an additional 2,500 square feet of mezzanine. This is high quality investment grade concrete tilt up construction, 36 foot minimum clear height, state of the art emergency suppression fire response sprinklers, which are top of the line, the the best you can get, ample parking with 130 spaces for each building, LED warehouse lighting, highly enhanced landscaping, 2.5% skylights, decorative fencing, amenity spaces, and architectural lighting features.

This project will be qualified for a leadership in energy and Environmental Design, otherwise known as LEED colloquially. And that certification is given from the U. S. Green Building Council. For this project, we have been tasked to try to achieve the highest possible LEED certification.

That includes reduced lighting, power density, 100 LED lighting, efficient landscaping, other we're at side the benefits. And Some of the support that we have given and will be beneficiaries of this project are UC Riverside Department of Art, National Healthcare for the Homeless, that's Hewland Place, which is our neighbor. It was in the neighborhood. Job training for Riverside Community College workforce and economic development. And city of Riverside innovation, district signage and marketing to benefit the economic development department.

And last but not least, this project has committed to use local labor and local unions. Again, thank you. Thank you to staff, especially to Candace who's done a great job of putting this report together.

Does that conclude your presentation?

Yes. Thank you.

Thank you very much. We'll go ahead and open it up for public comment, please.

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Thank you. I believe we have one caller. Caller, if you can hear me, please go ahead. Hello. Good morning.

Good morning. This is Rachel Ehlers of Pull and Save Riverside Allied Auto Salvage and Spruce Street Properties. Our property is to the north of this proposed development and we just wanted to share our thoughts on the matter quickly. We have been living, working and raising our children in Riverside for more than twenty years and we have about 50 employees that are part of our team and our property is exactly to the north of this property and we have eight acres on Spear Street. We are fourth generation auto recyclers with my oldest daughter joining or beginning the fourth generation as she graduated from college in December.

We're fully engaged in our industry by representing our industry in both the state, local, and national level in participation with association boards and we safely and legally process about 10,000 vehicles as the only licensed auto dismantler in the city of Riverside. So we have a huge positive environmental impact by processing those vehicles properly. We fully support the project and we appreciate our neighbors to the South and we wish them the best success And we hope that this measure passes for them.

Thank you so much for your call. Are there any other comments? And none here in the chambers. May I go ahead and have a motion to close public comment, please? Thank you.

I second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. Alright, motion carries. Do we have any comments from the commissioners? Commissioner Wilder, please go ahead.

Thank you. You pull up on the project plans? Can you pull up the WQMP? And is the applicant's engineer available? If you could, I have a few questions regarding your proposal. Certainly. As soon as they can pull it up here.

Commissioner staff has the grading plans for Building 1 And 2. Would either of these work to help with your I

was looking for the section that's being proposed of the WQMP.

That'd be sheet eight, Candace, if we have sheet eight available.

Commissioner, we don't have it within the deck here but we can put it up on the projector.

Okay. Well, I can try doing it by memory unless it's readily available.

Commissioner, were you referencing the cross section or do you want the The site

cross section. You're indicating three nine foot diameter pipes to be buried. Is that correct?

Yes, sir. That's correct. Those are three nine foot diameter CMP perforated pipes. Those allow us to attain the required treatment volume combined with the voids and the gravel bed that they sit in. And based on the infiltration test results from the soils engineer, we have good infiltration here. So the system is designed to contain the treatment requirement volume and infiltrate within a seventy two hour period.

Okay. Very good. What is the outside diameter of those pipes?

Inside is nine feet we just mentioned, and it's the thickness of galvanized or corrugated metal pipes. No more than an inch, I would say. It's corrugated, so just the corrugations, but it's thin steel pipe.

Okay. The reason why I bring that up is you're showing a 32 foot wide area to to accommodate the placement of those. And it doesn't appear like that's gonna be wide enough for backfill. You know, just the construction operations to place those. Is that going to be an issue?

And as well as you you also only show an a 9.5 foot initial backfill which and it shows 12 inch minimum to the top of those pipes. How does that work?

So this system, sir, is a proprietary system from a manufacturer named Contech. This is a system we've used in many different applications and these are entitlement level drawings. The construction documents will have all of the specifications for the system but typically the Kontech systems are various sized perforated CMPs with a six inch gravel bed on the bottom. No really more than one foot of a a gravel fill on either side, whatever and cover we need below the parking lot is where this is situated.

Yeah. I'm just referencing what what you're showing here. It just mathematically, it doesn't add up with those nine foot pipes.

I would say that the drawing is graphically a little bit exaggerated. It's not to scale. And

No. I understand that. But the dimension shown doesn't add up.

Yeah. I agree with you in that with the six inch gravel bed, the fill on top of this the pipes themselves is gonna be greater than six inches, six to one foot minimum. So it should be would say that's a drafting error and probably closer to 10 and a half feet.

Okay. You know, it's I know it's just a minor detail, but I just wanna make sure that this system's gonna work based on the the depth that's proposed. Now will there be access for maintenance?

Yes. There will be. There are access manholes designed in these systems on, I believe, in this one either end of the system itself. So, yeah, these are nine foot diameter and they are designed to have access manholes to get down into these pipes for maintenance.

Oh, okay.

I've Are they in been in them, but we've done bigger systems with 12 foot diameters, smaller systems with three foot diameters, and we've seen those functional. And at this point, I haven't don't know of any maintenance issues with the way we access the system.

Okay. Is is there are they interconnected?

Yes. They are. It's one connected system.

Okay. The only other question I have regarding this is because it's taking drainage from two parcels. Is is it in the agreement that the one parcel that this is going to be physically on, is there agreement between the two to accept that drainage?

There will have to be a maintenance agreement in place for both property owners because, yes, this system does treat all the storm water from both parcels. It has to be kind of a reciprocal maintenance agreement between both owners.

Hello commissioners. This is Chris Nieto, city public works engineer. Just a note on that, we'll definitely have a separate maintenance agreement just for the cross lot drainage as you say and then on top of that there's a covenant that will travel along with the title in perpetuity for the maintenance and access of this drainage system.

Okay. Thank

Also you very just commenting on the cross section. In initial analysis there's at least 12 inches between pipes and on each end to allow for space for backfill and around the pipes which is kind of standard. The drive aisles are wide enough to widen even more if we end up coming to some kind of conclusion that needs further widths.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner Mooney, please go ahead.

Is this on? Yep. It is. Good morning.

Good morning.

I'm afraid I can't get that far into the weeds about the project as I'm not that familiar with all of the specs in that regard but I did want to speak to the overall and a couple of key points if you're able to attend or view the mayor of the city of Riverside's State of the City address last night. It was a lovely evening. But one of the things she brought up and there were four areas and one had to do with economic viability. So I just want to thank you for bringing a project of this scale, keeping in mind the potential contracts we could get with attracting folks to come in here into the city of Riverside to contribute to our economic growth and sustainability. So this looks like that had that in mind for having those kinds of tenants.

So I want to thank you for that. There was also a portion of the evening where there was recognition by the group called Keeping Riverside Clean and Beautiful. I did even do some volunteer work with them many years ago with my daughters in cleaning up our beautiful Victoria Avenue and keeping that clean. I think there's even another group separate for that. But especially with people who come into our city who just sit down and marvel at and I think your owner's wife about the beauty of the city of Riverside with our history of the Orange Groves and the history of our beautiful architecture that's here.

So, I wanted to just acknowledge that your plans in creating an up to date Class A kind of a business is really going to enhance the city. And it was really nice seeing a lot of the things that recognition that keeping Riverside clean and beautiful were the things that we approved here in the planning commission. The hospitals, the different businesses. And so, it looks like your plans really are focusing on just the architectural beauty and contribution to maintaining and contributing to just beautiful buildings in our city for doing business and also the landscaping. So I wanted to thank you for that and it looks like it's gonna be an overall great project.

I'm looking forward to seeing that being brought to our city.

Thank you.

On behalf of the owner, you.

Thank you. Commissioner Baird, please.

Yes, good morning. Thank you for bringing this project forth. When I first saw this, I'm not a big fan of putting warehousing in an area of the town that had an overlay district for housing and employment. Bluntly, you've proposed some pretty beautiful buildings as far as warehousing is concerned. So I do appreciate that. That is noted. I think the other members here appreciate that as well. And I think it would go I don't want to go unrecognized that there's well over 1,300,000.0 in community benefits I see proposed in the development agreement, right, which is noted with our work both on the site and supporting some organizations through the community.

So I want to

say thank you for that. Right, that is noted and appreciated. That shouldn't get lost in the context of long reports and many exhibits. And we see that and appreciate that. So thank you for bringing this project. Not a huge fan of more warehousing. I think we have a housing crisis, not a warehousing crisis in the Inland Empire. But as far as this location, the context, the community benefits that you're bringing forth, the architectural elements associated with this, I think you've done an outstanding job of presenting a very approvable project despite my my reservation of more concrete tilt ups in the Inland Empire and our community. Thank you. Thank you.

Commissioner Singh please go ahead.

Good morning. I'm just curious how many jobs this project is likely to create and what kind of jobs?

Let me have the owner speak to that if we could.

Probably have my

colleague first of

all thank you for those kind sentiments. I very much appreciate that. Steve you may have a better sense for that number do you? How many jobs will be created? How

many and what kind of jobs?

On the first front, the construction jobs. I

would say 50 to 100.

Okay. And as far as the number of employees.

I think staff can answer that. That was part of the CEQA research. So we're looking at 194 permanent jobs within the two warehouses.

Can you talk about what kind of jobs? Because one of the presentations or slides say the high quality jobs. So what are the high quality jobs?

I'll defer back to the applicant team. It really depends on the tenant that ends up in the space. These are just spec buildings at this point.

We intend to work closely with your economic development department to attract high quality jobs. At this juncture, it's hard to say precisely, but there's certainly enthusiasm about biotech and certain industries that I know the community and the city are supporting. And we intend to work closely with you in trying to attract those sorts of companies. Will this location and these buildings be precisely what they're looking for? We're not sure but we wanted to make sure we elevated the quality level so that they would be candidates for sure.

Thank you for the project. Thank

you. Great.

Thank you. Commissioner, if I may follow-up on that just a couple of notes. The city has taken some trade missions to attract green tech to the city and is very active in doing so and has been very successful recently in attracting Vault 2 Hyundai ROADM which are green tech manufacturing jobs which are higher paying jobs for that matter.

Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner Singh. Will just before I call for a motion, I will just like to go on record myself to thank the applicant, for bringing this project forward. I, like my fellow commissioner Baird, initially had the very same concerns that he expressed about the change in zoning away from, partially zoned for housing to this. But in reviewing the project, in in driving the site, this project will be a dramatic improvement to what is there right now. And so, and thank you for addressing all of the concerns that were expressed in the, in the letters that were submitted from various parties.

I also appreciate the community benefits that you're bringing to the table. And specifically, I want to call out and thank you for your commitment to utilize labor union, workers for this project because that's a very important thing, for our community to have local labor utilized to create this sort of project here. So, thank you for that. And with that, I will close my comments and ask if we have a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

I second.

I'm sorry. Who seconded?

Me.

Okay. We have a motion by Commissioner Mooney, a second by Commissioner Singh. Please vote. All right, motion carries. Congratulations. There's a ten day appeal period. Please contact the planning division for appeal information. Thank you very much. At this time, the planning commission will open the public hearing to receive public input regarding planning case PC-twenty20Five-fiveFive-five006. Six.

Planning Clear it out.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you, Chairwoman, members of the Commission, Sarah Zugayer, Associate Planner. The case before you is a request for a conditional use permit to relocate an existing market with off sale of alcohol within the same multi tenant commercial complex. The 2.04 acre project site is developed with an existing multi tenant commercial complex Brickyard Plaza, originally constructed in 1978. Surrounding uses include commercial uses to the north and east across Magnolia Avenue, single family residences to the South, and Tyler Galleria Mall to the West across Hughes Alley. These photos depict the existing conditions of the site.

Photos one, two, and three show the project site from Magnolia Avenue, and photo four shows the project site from the back of the tenant space. The project site is zoned commercial retail and located within the Galleria District of the Magnolia Avenue specific plan, which allows for the off sale of alcohol with the approval of a conditional use permit. The existing commercial complex consists of two multi tenant buildings totaling 18,865 square feet. The proposal includes relocating Pasha's Market from a eighteen sixty square foot tenant space to a 3,138 square foot tenant space within the same shopping center. No modifications to the site are proposed as part of this plan.

Pasha's Market Liquor will continue to operate from Sunday through Thursday from eight a. M. To eleven p. M. And Friday through Saturday from eight a. M. To one a. M. With two employees per shift. The project includes proposed off sale of beer, wine and distilled spirits, as shown on the screen in pink.

There is a correction to this slide. The proposed plans indicate a total of 127 square feet of sales area dedicated to alcohol. However, the applicant has made staff aware that the correct area is nine sixty square feet, which is approximately 30% of the sales floor. The existing sales area at their current location is 600 square feet, which is approximately 32% of the overall sales floor. Although the new tenant space is larger, the ratio of floor area dedicated to alcohol sales is decreasing by 2%.

The remaining retail area will be designated for items such as hot food, non alcoholic beverages, and household essentials. On-site security measures will include surveillance cameras, alarm systems, storefront lighting, and employee training for emergency responses and conflict resolution. No modifications to the exterior elevations are proposed with the exception of three lighting fixtures that provide for illumination for security and safety of patrons, employees, and surrounding businesses. As shown on the screen, the project meets all minimum setbacks for the off sale of alcoholic beverages. Pasha's Market Liquor complements surrounding commercial and residential uses and will serve nearby residents employees.

The site is consistent with all development standards of the zoning code and citywide design guidelines. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission determine that the project is exempt from CEQA per section 15,301, existing facilities, of the CEQA guidelines, as the project will not have a significant effect on the environment, and approve planning case 20,250,056 based on the findings outlined in the staff report and subject to the recommended conditions of approval. This concludes staff's presentation and the applicant team is present for any questions. Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation. May I ask the applicant to come forward and state your name please? Good morning.

Good morning. This is Alex. My name is Alex. I'm with AGC Design Concept. We are the architectural engineering firm who put the plans together and the presentation to the planning department. You. I'm here to answer any questions that you might have. I don't know if you have mentioned the history or the reason why we are relocating. The actual landlord canceled the lease of our client and said, if you don't move to the next space, you are not welcome here anymore. We have plans for this other location.

So they are in a situation right now where we actually submitted plans already for construction documents to the city because I think at the end of this month is when they're going to stop the lease. So they are in a rush to get this approved and move next door. It's literally next door. They're not even going to rent a truck. They're just going to get the liquor and all the other stuff to the new space. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer those questions.

One question. At this point, do you agree with staff's conditions and recommendations for the project?

Yes, we do. There is one there, but there is nothing we can do and we understand it. One of the condition from the police department about the singles, they were not allowed to sell singles. But we understand.

Thank you so much. At this time, I need to open it up for public comment.

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There's no comments here in chambers. Anybody call in online? No callers. May I have a motion to close public comment, please? Thank you.

I second.

Thank you. Please vote. Thank you. Motion carries. Any questions or comments from the commission? Commissioner Wilder?

Yeah. I just have a a quick question regarding security. What what existing security do you have for that site and is there anything else proposed?

I don't believe at this moment we have like a fancy technology cameras at the store, probably one camera or two. Now on the new store which is a lot bigger than the old one, there's going to be a camera system that is going to record all the movements and whatever incident might happen inside or even outside.

Has there been additional conditions placed on that regarding security?

Staff does have a security plan that was reviewed by RPD and we do have a representative available. But we do have surveillance cameras that are required. They'll be reviewed by RPD. They have alarm systems and they also have staff training for alcohol service. But if you have specific questions, maybe Sergeant Maggie can address them.

No, just wanted to see what the overall program was going to be.

Okay, sounds great. Thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner Singh.

Thank you Madam Chair. Good morning. I have a couple questions for you. Yes. So this store, how long this has been in business in the existing location?

More than twenty years. And it's a family business.

Right, and what has been your experience with crime?

I'm sorry?

Crime, what kind of experience have you had?

Actually none, there's no issues. The police department actually is very happy with the tenant. In fact, about a month ago, there were visit by ABC. They send us minors to try to buy alcohol and they got a letter saying thank you for being so I guess aware of the chances to sell to kids or minors. They passed, they didn't sell.

So you did not have any crime related

to alcohol, drinking,

okay. Now you're moving to the new location or the next door which is larger place. Is it because you sell a lot of alcohol?

No, it's just that that's the space available so there's no choice. They've been in the community for more than twenty years. They don't want to go and rent someplace two blocks away. They've been there so everybody knows about the market. So it happened that the space is a lot bigger.

Thank you.

Commissioner Baird.

Do we have anybody from RPD to confirm the police activity and crime related to the current location? If it's average, normal, above average, etcetera?

Come on up, please.

Good morning, everybody. My name is Sgt. Maggie Kruvikalis for the Vice Unit. For 2026, there have been zero calls for service at or near that location. In 2025, there was 19 miscellaneous for subject bothering, some thefts and other miscellaneous crimes that occurred at or particularly with the business itself. And then the same thing for 2024, there was 19 calls for service.

Thank you for that and having that on hand, anticipating the questions. Is that normal for shopping center like this? Is that a

It's actually fairly good numbers.

Okay. That's representative of the shopping center, not necessarily the specific business calls for service on

the Correct.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other? So I'll before I call for a motion, I'll just, go on record to thank you for clarifying the reason behind the move in location. When I first was reviewing the project, I assumed that it was because the business was growing and needed the extra space to expand, but it sounds like the tenants are in a bind. And so, that's unfortunate, but, the plans that you have, put before us, it makes sense.

And it also makes sense to me that the tenants, that your clients would not want to move out to a different shopping center. They've been very well established for decades in that location. So I'm just glad that there is another option for them in the same location. So thank you for that. And so with that, I will ask if there's a motion to approve.

I move to approve Planning Case PC2025-five06.

Thank you. Is there a second?

Second. All

right. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. All right. Thank there's a ten day appeal period. Please contact the planning division for appeal information. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

We'll now move on to the consent calendar. Does anybody wish to pull an item from consent calendar for discussion? If not, may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar, please?

I second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. All right. Motion carries. Discussion calendar. Item number six, determine whether the absence of commissioner Elizalde from December 18 should be recorded as excused or unexcused. We have to open up public comment for this. Alright? We have to open up public comment.

So, the public is invited to participate in person or by calling (951) 826-8688 to comment on this item. Press 9 to be placed in the queue and 6 to speak. No callers. No one in the audience. May I have a motion to approve the absence?

I I move to approve as excused. Second.

All right. Motion is

I had the

flu folks.

I'm sorry. Please

vote. That flu was going around. Alright, motion carries. Thank you. Do we have any motion, any items for future consideration?

Thank you, madam chair. A couple items for you for February 12 meeting. We have a conditional use permit coming forward to you for an off sale of alcohol in a tap room. And we also have a couple amendments to the zoning code having to deal with billboards and tobacco retail sales. Those will be the items coming toward you towards this board on the twelfth.

Thank you. Alright. No further business. We'll stand adjourned.

Thank you, ma'am chair.

Thank you, everybody. Good to see y'all.